When we use imagination to create anything, how much is already programmed?
ALL ARTISTS LIE WHEN THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH. TRUTH AND LIE HAVE NO MEANING.
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WHEN ELSEWHERE IS NOWHERE AND HERE AND NOW SOON DISMISSED
An art gallery owning friend was expressing her frustration with gallery visitors a few days ago. Many were in and out in two minutes
MY CAT IS AN ARTIST, BUT CHOOSES NOT TO PRACTICE.
I watched film some time ago of an elephant painting. It painted elephants and trees in startlingly observed detail..
GOOGLE AND IKEA HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. STEVE JOBS, NOT SO MUCH.
I have no doubt that visual artists are going to have to adapt and train themselves to use digital tools. After all, if an ageing David Hockney can show the way with an iPad as his main creative tool, then who are we lesser mortals to argue the toss.
ARTISTS DO MORE GOOD BY DYING THAN THEY WOULD HAVE DONE BY LIVING LONGER LIVES. Discuss.
Sadder still was the fate of Elvis and Tom Jones. The latter is still singing the same songs of decades ago on the stages on Las Vegas while elderly women queue up to throw their underwear in his direction. The last days of Elvis [fat, flat and sweating] were mostly an embarrassment. The plethora of Elvis imitators who gather annually in various corners of the world choose to remember the early songs and the white jump suit. The King died at just the right time to be inaugurated as a legend. Given another couple of decades and the world might not have been so kind.
WHEN A DARK HORSE CAN BE A RIGHT COW.
I’d be the first to recognise that the audience provides at least fifty percent of the meaning of a work but questions of beauty, not being given to sentimentality personally, is enough to give you a headache.